Supervisor of Elections Annie Williams said she is going to ask county commissioners at an upcoming meeting for more money to "fulfill the requirements of this office." ...more

October 30, 2009

I don't have a problem with volunteering, but if the state would make our county commissioners volunteer their time too, and give Hernando County that money saved, we would be way ahead of the game. ...more

September 24, 2009

Nearly 4,000 poll workers will undergo an intensive training course at the Phyllis Busansky Clerks Academy prior to next year's elections. ...more

July 9, 2009

Fourteen local clubs and organizations earned $37,852.69 to give back to the community by staffing precincts on Election Day last month, Supervisor of Elections Brian E. Corley announced recently. In the Adopt-A-Precinct program, volunteers from the groups are paid the standard poll worker wage. Adopt-A-Precinct participants, however, agree in advance to donate their Election Day salaries to a charity of their club's choosing. ...more

December 27, 2008

More than 100,000 Pasco County voters took advantage of early or absentee voting to avoid the long lines predicted for this historic election. ...more

November 5, 2008

"Historic levels" of voter turnout taxed Florida's election system at times on Tuesday but failed to trigger anything resembling the kind of meltdown experienced in 2000. ...more

November 5, 2008

The city's current mayor easily won re-election Tuesday and the vice-mayor narrowly lost his seat, according to unofficial results. ...more

November 5, 2008

It was 5 p.m. at the Alice Hall Community Center in Zephyrhills and more ducks were being fed outside the building than humans casting ballots inside. An estimated 1,200 voters were expected at the precinct on Election Day, but with two hours until the polls closed, just over 600 voters had been through the doors. ...more

November 4, 2008

3:49 p.m.: In Pinellas County, six optical scanning machines had to be replaced by noon today, while 439 absentee ballots have had to be discounted thus far because of signature irregularities on the part of the voters, according to a spokeswoman with the Supervisor of Elections Office. ...more

November 4, 2008

2:49 p.m.: I've been covering the 2008 election for 15 months now. I waited until Election Day in a bipartisan spirit, thinking that being a late decider would help keep my reporting unbiased. ...more

November 4, 2008